iepe
kepia
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Example: This is an introduced species that is a weed in cultivated fields.
Scientific name: Solanum torvum, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kmtameta, tanpiteu
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Example: When a person has diarrhea with blood (dysentery) , this is the plant medicine used to treat it. Take leaves and squeeze juice into a cup of water and give this to the person who is ill. One teaspoon for young children and for an adult 1 full cup in the morning each day until fully cured.
Scientific name: Hemigraphis reptans, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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konkori
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Example: Fruits edible and sold in market to earn money.
Scientific name: Dracontomelon vitiense, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konuwak arwerew
konuwak arwerew
kuanihinihy
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Example: Stems can be used as a broom when tied in bunch. When a young woman does not want to have children, she can chew these leaves for one week, spit out fibers and swallow the leaf residue. If she chews four branches of leaves per treatment, two times a day, for one week, she will stay barren for 5-6 years.
Scientific name: Sida cordifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwaji yerman sei piak sarawhi
mantopani mariyango
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Example: The root of this variety is made into lap-lap used in certain ceremonies
Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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marimari
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Example: To treat indigestion, take 5 roots from 5 different plants, clean, grate into 600mL bottle of water. Drink one bottle twice daily. In Tanna, people use this plant to make rain, thunder, or to stop the rain. To make rain, take a big pile of this plant’s leaves, tie them in a bundle with a rope, and put into the sea. When the leaves start rotting, usually after one week, the rain will come.
Scientific name: Zingiber zerumbet, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nakwaragfam
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Example: Stem for house building. Young leaves are very strong and used as plates during large kastom ceremonies. Sap can be used to cover sores from flies in order to protect it. Stem good for firewood as does not give much smoke--does not bother eyes as much as other wood.
Scientific name: Macaranga tanarius, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nare
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Example: This plant is used to welcome people by weaving the leaves and flowers into a head lei, locally known as a Kuanari. If there are no flowers, people weave the leaves and use these to welcome visitors. This species is becoming an invasive in the area.
Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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natuan
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Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.
Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nauri
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Example: Young stems are used to support the roof of ther house. Use yellow sap for glue. Fruits and flowers eaten by flying fox. Same effect as poison tree, they do not fly correctly, often falling and can be harvested to eat.
Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nekatirou
nekeinap
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Example: When people chew the kava root for processing, they spit it on this leaf. It is sort of a magic leaf for picking up a person--put 4 leaves together, 2 per side and then lift the person up.
Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nekethirau
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Example: Remove base from flower and chew flower--tastes sweet. Long ago there were no pens, you could use this flower to write message on wood.
Scientific name: Malvaviscus arboreus, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nemeiau
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Example: When this plant flowers, along with an unspecified white flower, people know that a certain shellfish, locally known as Bari, is ready to harvest and eat.
Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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niknapus
nipar
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Example: Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open, boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.
Scientific name: Calophyllum, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nisesatok
nua popo
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Example: When a person is stung by a jellyfish, take 5-6 leaves and whip the sore for 5-10 minutes and this will reduce the soreness of the wound.
Scientific name: Ipomoea pes-caprae, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nukweri pran
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Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes its bed with the fronds of this fern.
Scientific name: Austroblechnum melanoaulon, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nusumanu
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Example: Children collect young leaves to decorate their exercise books in school. If a person does not want to get too drunk on kava, they will chew 3 leaves before drinking, and spit out remains while swallowing the juice. This plant has the power to reduce effects of Kava.
Scientific name: Adiantum diaphanum, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nɨkoko
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Example: Stem used to make canoe. Easy to cut.
Scientific name: Hernandia nymphaeifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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parangi akwes
penesu
penesu
pranawhi sei piak sa namritaik
roua ~ tapou
sinsop
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Example: Fruits edible. People drinking kava eat a fruit after drinking. Say that it makes kava stronger. Boil leaves with Euodia (MJB 5031) when a person has a strong cough to cure it. Double handful of each plant in 1 liter water and boil for 20 minutes. Wash your with it and drink 1 cup in evening (cold) for 4 days.
Scientific name: Annona muricata, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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Takiaew sei tasi
tasiapen
tesereng
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Example: There is a story that an evil spirit stole this yam during the time of the ancestors, taking it from this area to the other side of the volcano. Because the spirit took the best part of the yam, leaving the worst part, this one became hard to grow
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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tikinau asori
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Example: Used for the construction of many things including walls for houses and benches.
Scientific name: Bambusa vulgaris, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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tikirkak
tuprepai
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Example: The wood of this tree makes good house posts and is also used as firewood
Scientific name: Claoxylon, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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whiine ia nui
yesu